The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, ‘What’s so great about Billie Holiday?’
DIANA ROSS
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What’s important for me is to give my daughters a well-rounded education and a mixture of people in their lives. They’ll make their own choices. I think they would be good in show business.
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The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, ‘What’s so great about Billie Holiday?’
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I’d traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.
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You can have a lot of New York and still see what’s going on in the rest of the world, I think – like in China.
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I don’t like to have too many makeup artists around, so I always like to do my own.
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People can take your name and write a book about you and they make money off of it. How is the public supposed to know you’re not authorizing that book? As soon as you make a big stink about it it only makes the book sell more.
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I don’t know what my life would have been like if I’d never gotten into show business.
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Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?
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My children come first and the career comes in around that.
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Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don’t hold on to that.
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I think that if my voice for some reason changes – because your voice does change – then it’s time for me not to sing.
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It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.
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I can be a better me than anyone can.
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I know that my fans want to know who I’m sleeping with, but it’s really none of their business.
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With the Supremes I made so much money so fast all I wanted to do was buy clothes and pretty things. Now I’m comfortable with money and it’s comfortable with me.
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